Fox News host Neil Cavuto lambasted Trump’s implication earlier this week that the network should be “working” for him.

The president tweeted on Wednesday, “We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!”

Cavuto criticized the comments in his closing monologue last night. “Mr. President, we don’t work for you. I don’t work for you,” the host said. “My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you. Just report on you.”

Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1)

"Mr. President, we don't work for you. I don't work for you," Fox News host Neil Cavuto said in the closing monologue of his show. "My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you. Just report on you." pic.twitter.com/owHC2gwd0u

Cavuto has previously called out Trump for dismissing negative coverage of his administration as “fake news.” “Now, I’m not saying you’re a liar,” he said last year amid reports of the payment to Stormy Daniels. “You’re the president. You’re busy. I’m just having a devil of a time figuring out which news is fake. Let’s just say your own words on lots of stuff give me, shall I say, lots of pause.”

But one former adviser to Barack Obamamocked the idea of a Fox News host trying to get some distance from Trump, given all of the fawning coverage the network has showered on the president.

Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer)

Cavuto/Shep Smith et al are massively overpaid by Fox explicitly so they will do this performance once in a while so Fox can continue to get American corporations to help pay for White nationalist propaganda at all hours of the day.

Greta Thunberg joins protest outside the UN

Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist from Sweden, has joined a protest outside the United Nations headquarters in New York to demand action on the climate crisis.

Thunberg arrived in New York on Wednesday after crossing the Atlantic via a solar-powered yacht.

She told the Guardian after completing her journey: “It’s insane that a 16-year-old has to cross the Atlantic in order to take a stand, but that’s how it is. It feels like we are at a breaking point. Leaders know that more eyes on them, much more pressure is on them, that they have to do something, they have to come up with some sort of solution. I want a concrete plan, not just nice words.”

DNC likely to reject Iowa and Nevada's virtual caucuses

The final choice whether to allow virtual caucuses in Iowa and Nevada is up to the party’s powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee. But opposition from DNC’s executive and staff leadership makes it highly unlikely the committee would keep the virtual caucuses, leaving two key early voting states and the national party a short time to fashion an alternative before the February caucuses.

The state parties had planned to allow some voters to cast caucus votes over the telephone in February 2020 instead of showing up at traditional caucus meetings.

Iowa and Nevada created the virtual option to meet a DNC mandate that states open caucuses to more people, but two sources with knowledge of party leaders’ deliberations say there are concerns that the technology used for virtual caucuses could be subject to hacking.

Flynn's lawyers and US prosecutors differ on sentencing timeline

Flynn’s lawyers are arguing that they need more time to review his case and that his sentencing should be delayed accordingly.

“The case is not ready for sentencing,” Flynn’s lawyers wrote in a report to the US District Court judge in the case, Emmet Sullivan.

They argued they had been denied access to pertinent information “that is either classified or being suppressed by the government.” “We must have access to that information to represent our client consistently with his constitutional rights and our ethical obligations,” the lawyers wrote.

But federal prosecutors say they are ready to close the case on Flynn, who was originally supposed to be sentenced in December. They have proposed a sentencing hearing between either October 21 and 23 or November 1 and 15.

Mr. Leavelle, a veteran Dallas homicide detective who had survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, was handcuffed to Mr. Oswald and was leading him through a police station basement on Nov. 24, 1963, when Mr. Ruby, a nightclub owner, stepped out of the crowd and pumped a fatal bullet into the prisoner. The shooting, with Mr. Oswald’s pained grimace and Detective Leavelle’s stricken glower, was chillingly captured by Robert H. Jackson of The Dallas Times Herald in an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.

Moments earlier, he and Mr. Oswald had had an eerie exchange, Mr. Leavelle often later recounted. ‘Lee,’ he recalled saying, ‘if anybody shoots at you, I hope they are as good a shot as you.’

To which, he said, Mr. Oswald replied: ‘You’re being melodramatic.’

At the time, two days after President Kennedy had been gunned down in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, Mr. Oswald was a suspect in the killing of a Dallas police officer, J.D. Tippit, and had yet to be conclusively tied to the assassination. But after Detective Leavelle asked him whether he had shot the police officer, Mr. Oswald aroused the detective’s suspicions by insisting, ‘I didn’t shoot anybody,’ as if, Mr. Leavelle later recounted, there had been another shooting as well.

Flynn has a new attorney: former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, one of the earliest and fiercest critics of the Justice Department and the FBI’s investigation into a potential conspiracy between President Trump’s campaign and Russia.

The move appears to signal a shift in posture, if not in strategy: Powell, a former Justice Department attorney who has written extensively about overzealous prosecutors, has claimed that Flynn was spied on as part of a ‘set-up’ by the FBI, and that his entire case should be ‘dismissed,’ taking a far more aggressive public stance than Flynn’s previous lawyers, Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, ever did.

Flynn, who fired Kelner and Anthony last week, awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with former Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the transition period.

The government said it was hoping to sentence Flynn, who was charged with lying to the FBI about his conversations with a Russian official, by early November. But Flynn’s legal team appeared hesitant about that timeline.

Hurricane Dorian is likely to affect the state directly overnight Sunday, with the latest computer modeling predicting it will make landfall in the early hours of Monday, the Labor Day holiday in the US, around West Palm Beach.

But weather experts on Thursday proclaimed the state’s entire east coast at risk.

The tempest on Friday was threatening to become the most powerful hurricane to affect the east coast of Florida since Hurricane Andrew roared ashore in 1992, causing devastating damage and killing 65 people.

A state of emergency has been declared and Donald Trump has canceled his forthcoming trip this weekend to Poland as the storm approaches. The president warned the storm was an ‘absolute monster’.

Millions of Floridians on Friday were stockpiling water, food, fuel and materials such as plywood to board up properties. They have been advised to track the storm closely.

Trump pushes for more mental institutions to combat gun violence

When back-to-back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, jolted the nation earlier this month, Trump again spoke of ‘building new facilities’ for the mentally ill as a way to reduce mass shootings.

‘We don’t have those institutions anymore and people can’t get proper care,’ Trump lamented at a New Hampshire campaign rally not long after the latest shootings.

Now, in response to Trump’s concerns, White House staff members are looking for ways to incorporate the president’s desire for more institutions into a long list of other measures aimed at reducing gun violence.

It’s the latest example of White House policy aides scrambling to come up with concrete policies or proposals to fill out ideas tossed out by the president. And it’s an idea that mental health professionals say reflects outdated thinking on the treatment of mental illness.

After the shootings in El Paso and Dayton earlier this month, the American Psychological Association put out a statement criticizing those who tried to connect the violence to mental illness.

“Routinely blaming mass shootings on mental illness is unfounded and stigmatizing,” said Rosie Phillips Davis, the APA’s president. “Research has shown that only a very small percentage of violent acts are committed by people who are diagnosed with, or in treatment for, mental illness.”

Trump ousts personal assistant for talking to the press

Happy Friday, live blog readers!

It appears that the Trump White House’s high turnover rate has claimed another victim: the president’s personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout.

Westerhout has been with Donald Trump since his inauguration and has enjoyed extensive access to the president. Responsible for controlling the flow of traffic into the Oval Office, she also held a unique power, given Trump’s tendency to have his opinion be swayed by the last person he spoke to.

But all of that was forgotten when she spoke to reporters at an off-the-record dinner about the president’s office and his family. The New York Times reports:

Ms. Westerhout’s abrupt and unexpected departure came after Mr. Trump learned on Thursday that she had indiscreetly shared details about his family and the Oval Office operations she was part of at a recent off-the-record dinner with reporters staying at hotels near Bedminster, N.J., during the president’s working vacation, according to one of the people, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House personnel issues.

The breach of trust meant immediate action: Ms. Westerhout, one of the people familiar with her departure said, was now considered a ‘separated employee’ and would not be allowed to return to the White House on Friday.

Westerhout could have learned from James Comey’s memos detailing his interactions with Trump: this president demands absolute loyalty. And those who don’t offer it risk suffering a very unceremonious end to their public service.